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Who is entitled to a state retirement pension? What are the rates for the basic state pension? What is the state second pension? Are employers obliged to offer an occupational pension scheme? Is it permissible for an employer to offer a pension scheme only to full-time employees? What options are open to employees if their employer does not offer an occupational pension scheme? What is a stakeholder pension scheme? Are employers legally obliged to make stakeholder pension schemes available to all employees? What happens if the insolvent employer has failed to pay contributions into a pension plan? Does the National Insurance Fund cover unpaid pension fund contributions in an insolvency situation? Do employers have to provide survivors' pension benefits to same-sex partners? What changes to workplace pension law are being made by the legislation on auto-enrolment? When does auto-enrolment come into force?
Each employer is allocated a staging date, based on the number of people in its PAYE scheme. Employers can check their staging date on the staging date timeline on the website of the Pensions Regulator.
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